On March 26, news came that South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson, member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, would not be seeking re-election in 2014...
Rob Capricciosob
February 14, 2013
While Democratic senators in Congress continue to suppress a clean legislative solution to the controversial 2009 U.S...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) shared the news on the Senate floor December 17, that fellow senator and longtime stalwart Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) walked on...
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is scheduled to become the first woman chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs when the new session of Congress begins in January...
Gale Courey Toensing
December 03, 2012
On the eve of President Obama’s 4 th Annual White House Tribal Nations Summit, there is still time for a legislative solution to Indian country’s top priority: fixing the U.S...
At a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing about countering the negative images of Indians in popular culture, Lynn Valbuena captured the problem and the solution in two sente...
The Carcieri fix has been set aside pending further negotiations. S...
On November 19, the United South and Eastern Tribes announced its strong urging for Congress to pass a Carcieri fix, one week after retiring Sen...
Newly minted Assistant Interior Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn will speak at the convention of the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), along with outgoing U.S...

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